{"id":3222,"date":"2012-06-05T22:55:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T21:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2012-07-07T18:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T17:53:35","slug":"queen-not-gay-friendly-says-tatchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/queen-not-gay-friendly-says-tatchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen &#8216;not gay-friendly&#8217; says Tatchell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3224\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/HMQ1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3224\" title=\"HMQ\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/HMQ1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mar Majesty the Queen in lavender<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Peter Tatchell, arch-republican that he is, has been moaning <strong><a title=\"The Guardian - all links open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/jun\/01\/queen-gay-community-homophobe\" target=\"_blank\">in the Guardian<\/a><\/strong> that the Queen is not &#8216;gay-friendly&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>We disagree &#8211; and show why below.<\/p>\n<p>The charge sheet compiled by Mr Tatchell includes HMQ having not visited AIDS victims or mentioned LGBT people in her broadcasts.\u00a0 She had to be bullied, he says, into\u00a0allowing homosexual staff in the royal household to bring their &#8216;partners&#8217; to the annual Christmas ball at Buckingham Palace.\u00a0 &#8216;It was only after a protest outside the palace and the ensuing bad publicity that the royals dropped the ban&#8217;, he fumes.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Voice can always be relied upon to take up the cause of the monarchy especially in this Her Majesty&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee year, so in Her Majesty&#8217;s defence to the Tatchell onslaught, we offer the following:<\/p>\n<p>In 1967 HMQ gave her royal assent to the Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalised sodomy and gross indecency between men in private.\u00a0 The Act, brought in because a few homosexual civil servants had been caught with their\u00a0shirts lifted,\u00a0spawned the entire homosexual industry.\u00a0 The first &#8216;gay rights&#8217; march was held in 1972.\u00a0 Bars, shops and magazines catering to the &#8216;pink market&#8217; quickly followed.\u00a0 Sex education could now mention and even promote homosexuality.\u00a0 Britain was already slouching towards Gomorrah just fifteen years into the Queen&#8217;s reign.<\/p>\n<p>There was a bit of a blip in 1988 when HM allowed Section 28 of the Local Government Act to outlaw teaching that homosexual relationships were normal,\u00a0but Her Majesty went some distance to making amends in 1994, when her Criminal Justice and Public Order Act reduced the minimum age for sodomy to 18, legalised it upon women as well and redefined enforced sodomy as &#8216;rape&#8217; to equate sodomy with sexual intercourse.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1980&#8217;s, Her Majesty&#8217;s Government spent millions trying to convince everyone that AIDS was not a homosexual disease, and spent further millions on &#8216;health education&#8217; and free condoms for homosexuals and anyone who wanted one.\u00a0 She may not have visited AIDS victims as often as the late Diana Princess of Wales, but Her Majesty&#8217;s Government fund their Highly-Active Anti-Retoviral Treatments to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds.<\/p>\n<p>In her armed forces, which are very dear to Her Majesty&#8217;s heart, homosexual men and women became able openly to serve from 1999.\u00a0 By 2008, all three services were marching in uniform in the London Gay Pride march.\u00a0 As Peter Tatchell admits, her majesty&#8217;s homosexual staff can bring their partners in perversion right into Buckingham Palace for the annual Christmas ball.<\/p>\n<p>Her Majesty gave homosexual men legal access to sodomise 16-year-old boys in 2000 with the Sexual Offences Amendment Act.\u00a0 Two years later, Her Majesty decided that homosexual men and women could legally adopt children.<\/p>\n<p>With the Sexual Offences Act 2003, Her Majesty removed the offences of gross indecency and sodomy altogether.\u00a0 Section 28 (that 1988 blip) was removed in the same year, giving homosexual teachers and their allies full rein to promote homosexuality to both secondary and primary school children. In what was a bit of a boom year, she also gave her gracious assent to the idea that people committing criminal offences should receive heavier sentences if the victim was homosexual.<\/p>\n<p>Then in 2004, Her Majesty hit a new peak by giving Royal Assent to the Gender Recognition Act, which allowed transsexuals to go back and falsify their original birth certificates, and the Civil Partnership Act, which gave pairs of homosexuals the same legal rights as married couples.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3226\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CD1_15a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3226\" title=\"CD1_15a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CD1_15a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CD1_15a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CD1_15a-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CD1_15a-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CD1_15a.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Tatchell, who has a thing about queens, in the 2003 London Gay Pride parade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2003, the Sexual Orientation Employment Regulations had opened up all jobs, even those working with children and young people, to homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p>Following that, Her Majesty gave her consent to the Equality Act 2006.\u00a0 That empowered the Queen&#8217;s ministers to bring in in the Sexual Orientation Regulations to force Christian hoteliers to let rooms to homosexuals in Northern Ireland.\u00a0 Great Britain followed with identical regulations in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>2008 saw the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act, which brought in a homosexual incitement hate crime law and abolished the ancient offence of blasphemy, to the delight of secularist homosexuals including Peter Tatchell, who tried to read the lewd Gay News poem in public some years before.\u00a0 In the same year, she removed the need for a father or a mother in laws governing assisted reproduction in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, paving the way for lesbians and homosexual men to acquire children using donors and surrogates.<\/p>\n<p>The Equality Act 2010, to which Her Majesty gave her gracious consent, placed a duty on local authorities to promote transsexualism and homosexuality as two of the &#8216;protected groups&#8217; to be favoured by government and public authorities &#8211; including schools &#8211; throughout England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Her Majesty&#8217;s Government is now working out ways to introduce &#8216;gay marriage&#8217;.\u00a0 If that is enacted, which God forbid, Her Majesty will easily give it her royal assent, just as she has given her royal assent to every previous bit of &#8216;gay rights&#8217; legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what Peter Tatchell asserts, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has undoubtedly been the most &#8216;gay-friendly&#8217; monarch in British history.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Tatchell, arch-republican that he is, has been moaning in the Guardian that the Queen is not &#8216;gay-friendly&#8217;. We disagree &#8211; and show why below. The charge sheet compiled by Mr Tatchell includes HMQ having not visited AIDS victims or mentioned LGBT people in her broadcasts.\u00a0 She had to be bullied, he says, into\u00a0allowing homosexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[234,15,61,18,9,85,43,217],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality-trans","tag-gay-marriage","tag-christian-voice","tag-civil-partnerships","tag-gay-rights","tag-homosexuality","tag-queens-speech","tag-stephen-green","tag-stonewall"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Stephen","author_link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/author\/stephen\/"},"rttpg_comment":14,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/category\/homosexuality-trans\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Homosexuality &amp; Trans<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Peter Tatchell, arch-republican that he is, has been moaning in the Guardian that the Queen is not &#8216;gay-friendly&#8217;. 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